Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
Dealer The Fine Art Society to leave London’s Bond Street after more than 140 years
02 February 2018The Fine Art Society has decided to end its 142-year stint on London’s Bond Street in Mayfair and is searching for a new home.
Mallett reunited with Dreweatts and Bloomsbury after sale by Stanley Gibbons
31 January 2018Antiques dealership Mallett has been reunited with its former stablemates Dreweatts and Bloomsbury following a £100,000 purchase by Gurr Johns-owned Dreweatts.
Tetbury antiques dealer convicted of burglary of local jeweller
30 January 2018A Tetbury antiques dealer and his father have been convicted for a burglary of a jewellery shop in Gloucestershire.
Government issues export bar for JMW Turner landscape in hope of finding UK buyer
29 January 2018One of the few large-scale oil paintings by JMW Turner (1775-1851) left in private hands has been barred from export in the hope of finding a buyer in the UK.
Australian association insists on client accounts following collapse of Mossgreen
29 January 2018The Australian professional auctioneering body has called for all auctioneers to introduce client accounts – known as trust accounts in Australia – to avoid a repeat of the grim situation at failed firm Mossgreen.
Dawson’s makes city move on Hampstead
29 January 2018Dawson’s Auctioneers & Valuers is expanding into the capital with a new valuation office in north London.
Auction house China Guardian to open Art Center in Beijing to mark 25th anniversary
26 January 2018China Guardian is to open a new flagship building in Beijing this spring with auction and museum space.
Haul of $6m worth of Marvel and DC Comics are coming to auction in the US
25 January 2018Heritage Auctions in Dallas is offering more than 1000 lots at its February 22 Comics auction including an original Spider-Man cover by artist John Romita Sr.
Anna Mahler bronze sculpture comes to auction in Sussex
25 January 2018Anna Mahler may be best remembered as the daughter of the famous Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, but she was an accomplished artist in her own right, winning the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937.
More than 130 tins are set to take the biscuit at Cheshire auction
24 January 2018A lifetime’s collection of biscuit tins is heading to Peter Wilson Auctioneers in Nantwich, Cheshire.
TEFAF shakes up board with new appointments as Ben Janssens and James Roundell step down
23 January 2018The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF), the organisation behind the TEFAF Maastricht and TEFAF New York fairs, has restructured its board of trustees and its executive committee.
Mod Brit artist Cedric Morris to be celebrated with two exhibitions in London this spring
23 January 2018Artist Sir Cedric Morris (1889-1982) is to be the subject of two exhibitions in London to run concurrently this spring – one at the Garden Museum in Lambeth and one at the gallery of dealer Philip Mould in Pall Mall.
BADA Friends kicks off 2018 with Butchoff Antiques and Raynham Hall initiatives
22 January 2018The British Antiques Dealers’ Association (BADA) is continuing its support of the wider art and antiques market with the promotion of a country house collection and more of its ‘young dealer’ networking events.
Mossgreen boss ‘devastated’ by firm’s closure
22 January 2018Paul Sumner’s hopes of a restructure of Australian saleroom Mossgreen melted away last week after his proposed investment plan failed and the administrator began winding down the business.
Rountree Tryon downsizes as St James’s rents rise
22 January 2018Rising rents and business rates in central London have forced Rountree Tryon Galleries to downsize.
The plumber’s Old Master: Three reasons the survival of this Titian coming to auction is remarkable
22 January 2018Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian, painted ‘Saint Margaret’ with the help of this workshop in around mid-1560s. It depicts Margaret of Antioch, the virgin martyr who escapes from Satan, pictured as a dragon. It is now being offered at Sotheby’s in New York on February 1 with an estimate $2-3m.
High Court rules in favour of Simon de Pury over ‘gentleman’s agreement’
22 January 2018A precedent-setting legal dispute over a $10m (£7.2m) fee relating to the 2014 sale of a $210m Paul Gauguin painting has been won by auctioneer turned art adviser Simon de Pury.
TEFAF scraps art market report for smaller focused surveys
19 January 2018The annual TEFAF art market report has been scrapped in favour of a number of smaller, focused reports, leaving Clare McAndrew’s Art Basel report as the sole market-wide survey.
Sex life book by antiques dealer-turned-novelist becomes a musical
18 January 2018Antiques dealer Wendy Salisbury’s novel ‘The Toyboy Diaries’ has been turned into a musical and is making its debut tonight at Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester.
Australia’s Mossgreen auction house and art gallery to close if buyer cannot be found
17 January 2018Australian auction house Mossgreen is to be wound down by administrators after joint founder Paul Sumner was unable to restructure the firm.